Re: sci.bio.paleontology and PALEONET

[schumach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Richard A. Schumacher)]

May an amateur comment? A Usenet newsgroup may optionally be
moderated to reduce the amount of clutter or noise. The cost
is that this requires a possibly considerable investment of
time by a competent and un-biased moderator. An un-moderated
newsgroup will quite likely get a large fraction of posts from
amateurs. Most of these will be well-intentioned, but many of
them will be quite naive, and some number of them will be pure
crankism. (See for example sci.astro.) I had assumed that
PALEONET was deliberately a mailing list precisely to avoid
the noise inherent in a Usenet/Internet newsgroup.

Regards,
Richard Schumacher